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Report finds one in four NYC subway system pay phones don’t work

NYPIRG's Straphangers' Campaign does regular surveys of New York's subway payphones and the results are pretty consistent: Payphones in subways…

16 years ago

Ocean City: Verizon pulls plug on payphones

Here's hoping you've kept your cell phone charged on your next visit to the beach, because in Ocean City, public…

16 years ago

22 college students cram into a phone booth

How many college students can you fit into a phone booth?Students at St. Mary's College of California found an answer…

17 years ago

New York Times: Sorry, Superman

The New York Times reports: "Like the phonograph and the typewriter, the pay phone could one day become an anachronism,…

17 years ago

Aquarium Phone Booth

"With the advent of the mobile telephone, telephone booths lie unused. We rediscover this glass cage transformed into an aquarium,…

17 years ago

NY Times Blog: A Phantom Bell Atlantic Phone Booth

A New York Times City Room Blog entry points us to a payphone enclosure which still bore vestiges of the…

17 years ago

Sex, drugs and pay phones

The rot gut and cheap plonk have been pulled from Mike Christison's shelves, his hope being that the lack of…

17 years ago

Lost Child…Call Home

This is a Payphone Project feature from several years ago. My friend Rex drove out to a remote spot in…

17 years ago

The Bad Neighbor (Philadelphia City Paper)

At first, Ryan Caviglia barely noticed the pay phone that sat on the corner of 65th and Lebanon, just down…

17 years ago

Last call: Pay phones are on the way out

Near the entrance of Ruby Tuesday’s stands a silver box – a shell of the pay phone that used to…

17 years ago